Spain Papers Review - Friday September 29 2006

Spain Papers Review - Friday September 29 2006
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By h.b. - Sep 29, 2006 - 9:44 AM

Today's El Pais

The ETA cease fire being debated in the European Parliament leads many of the Spanish papers today

El Pais leads with the final police report which completes the court summary in the instruction stage of the March 11th Madrid Train bombings case.
The paper shows four men, authors and conspirators, named to have carried out the attacks in which 191 people died.
The El Pais headline – ‘The intellectual authority corresponds to the Iraqui insurgence and Al Qaeda’.

El Mundo leads with the Socialists taking talks with ETA to the European Parliament. El Mundo notes they are doing so after being requested to do so by Batasuna, the outlawed political wing of ETA.
ABC leads with ‘Batasuna, with the support of PSOE, ‘exports the conflict’ as ETA has requested. The paper says Mariano Rajoy has described the decision as absurd, and another slap in the face for the victims.
El Mundo has a photo of an army parachute display which took place in Guecho yesterday, and saw a nationalist demonstration on the beach as the parachutes fell.
ABC says the army manoeuvres have shown the anger of Batasuna and the Basque government.

El Mundo also says a Socialist party mobile phone called the area where an ETA informer was known to be in Madrid on May 4th. The paper contends the terrorist group was thus informed that certain bars where they meet in Irún were to be raided on the instructions of National Court Judge Baltasar Garzón.

El Pais says that mortgage rate are up 1.49 points in the largest increase registered in the past six years. The Euribor interest rate rose in September for the 12th consecutive month and now stands at 3.715% - the highest level since June 2002.
El Pais notes that a family from Cataluña are the first ever to manage to be officially declared to be bankrupt. It means they can halt their mortgage payments and avoid their flat being repossessed.

ABC notes that inflation has fallen to its lowest level for 15 months.

Another first, also on the front page of El Pais today, is the arrival of the first deaf and blind pupil reaching university. 25 year old Gennet Corcuera is about to enter university. She was born in Ethiopia. She was adopted by a Spanish woman at the age of 7.

El Mundo reports that 150 immigrants have escaped from a reception centre on the Canaries. The paper says they took advantage of the lack of police at the Las Raíces centre on Tenerife to make their escape and try to avoid repatriation.
La Razón says the government is paying 80 € a day to forget about the immigrant children. This is the amount that the Ministry for Employment is paying to the regions of Spain for each adolescent they house.

La Razón shows photos taken a year ago today, and not published before of the immigrants shot dead at the Ceuta frontier. The front page photo is truly shocking.

La Vanguardia in Barcelona leads with the headline ‘France proposes that Europe does not regularise any more immigrants’. The French interior minister Sarkozy is in Madrid today for talks on immigration.

El Mundo notes that the President of Acciona, José Manuel Entrecanales, is negotiating with the President of the Santander bank, Emilio Bolin, to try and stop the German E.ON take over of Spanish power company Endesa.

ABC says the Ministry of Health is drawing up a pact with the fashion firms to unify clothes sizes and to fight against anorexia. The idea is to make sizes ‘more Spanish’.

And finally,
El Mundo points out some mistakes made in the Official State Budget for next year. The paper points out that according to the document, Seville has a coast and the Balearics are to fund a new reserviour in La Rioja.

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